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About the AuthorRanjona Banerji

The writer is a senior journalist who writes on media affairs, politics and social trends.

Im not the sort of writer who spent the Pandemic lockdown carefully crafting my creative skills and honing my talent so I could write that exemplar novel, that series of high philosophy essays to understand humanity, that definitive book on the state of the nation. (Representative Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | My one true calling and how life got in the way

As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying...

17 Jan 2021 4:14 AM IST

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Ranjona Banerji | How I tweeted away my pandemic summer

I say this to sound like I have an all-round life, but I mean Twitter

21 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Moder

BOOK REVIEW | A whitewashed portrait shorn of biases, insights

For this reviewer, the fact that a book has been written about V.P. Menon is insufficient.

3 Nov 2020 1:47 AM IST

Exquisite Cadavers By Meena Kandasamy Westland, Rs 399

Exquisite dance of narratives, continents, identities

The skill is not just in the words or the device, it is also in the telling.

9 Feb 2020 8:23 AM IST

White by Brett Easton Ellis Knopf, Rs 799.

Ruminations on echo chambers and writing

By extension possibly, those who are deeply connected to the world of movies, wherever they may live.

8 Dec 2019 3:20 AM IST

Swerving to Solitude: Letters to Mama by Keki N. Daruwalla Simon and Schuster India, Rs 499.

Emergency, scrutinised through the female gaze

It is too easy to just set it in the Emergency or in India and the world of the 1970s.

15 Sept 2019 1:32 AM IST

The fate of butterflies, By Nayantara Sahgal Speaking Tiger, Rs 450.

Fear, humour mix in sadly prescient saga of our times

Not just a love between people but a love for an idea that is right, that is humane, that is a counter to hate, anger...

23 Jun 2019 7:16 AM IST

The Verdict: Decoding Indias Elections By Prannoy Roy & Dorab R. Sopariwala Penguin India, Rs 599

The method in India's election madness

The Verdict is about the process of understanding the process. It's not just about forecasting but also about the why...

28 April 2019 5:18 AM IST

Insider Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North East India Edited by Preeti Gill & Samrat Choudhary Amaryllis, Rs 399

Otherness and unbelonging in the Northeast

The focus of the Partition of India has for too long been on the line drawn on India's western border, through Punjab.

31 March 2019 4:43 AM IST

Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee To Modi by Saba Naqvi, Westland, Rs 599

Immensely readable, but only about Atal

Some explanations are rather too pat, some observations are superficial, but it is that sort of a book.

2 Sept 2018 12:10 AM IST

Devi: The Goddesses of India edited by John Stratten Hawley, Donna Marie Wulff, Aleph, Rs 499

Indian goddesses: Legends, realities

Local ideas of the Goddess are examined in the chapters on Vidhyavasini, Bhagavati, Sati and Seranvali.

26 Nov 2017 1:37 AM IST